Innovation organized as projects: A bibliometric analysis

This paper takes its starting point in research stating that research in project management and in innovation has been unconnected but is now converging. We analyse this convergence in a dataset of 527 articles published from 2010 to 2019 researching application of project management thinking to manage innovation projects. We analyse by application of bibliometric methods; bibliographical coupling to find authors that build on the same works; co-author networks to see who have written together; and co-word analysis to learn about the topics and their relationships. Based on the results, we conclude to which extent a convergence has taken place and we give information on research topics in the field. Finally, we suggest avenues of future research.